§ The result
Apriora (Alex) takes the total, Spark Hire takes more of the criteria.
Within the Video interview cohort, Apriora (Alex) edges Spark Hire by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 57 to 53. Spark Hire leads more of the criteria than Apriora (Alex) — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Apriora (Alex) leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Apriora (Alex). Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) and Spark Hire are both filed under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Spark Hire 62
3.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Spark Hire 58
1.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Spark Hire 30
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Spark Hire 38
1.1 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Spark Hire 60
0.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Spark Hire 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Spark Hire 64
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 62 | +21 | +3.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 53 (F) | +4 | +3.6 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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